US politics
Censorship debate reignited as banned works go on show in American galleries
Display featuring 45 controversial artists takes on added resonance in wake of Charlie Hebdo attacks
Married same-sex couples to get art tax breaks
Museums could benefit, as well as spouses who inherit works
Married gay couples to get art tax breaks
Museums could benefit, as well as sponsors
US could stop artists using drones
New regulations may restrict the use of surveillance technology in their work
Artists and academics fight animal rights activists in US Supreme Court
Anti-censorship group believes law against images of cruelty limits artistic freedoms
Interview with Jeremy Deller on tackling the troubled legacy of Iraq War
Turner prize-winner to take the controversial show on a three-week tour of the US in late March
Contemporary art chosen for new US embassy chosen “to connect” to China
The new embassy in Beijing, opening in August, will include art by Jeff Koons, Cai Guo-Qiang, Louise Bourgeois, Robert Rauschenberg, and others
New museum initiative designed to advance US foreign policy is looking for applicants
Can US museums help win the war on terror?
NEA will establish new panel to select American artists for biennales
The State Department wants to promote programmes in the Muslim world
News from New York: Larry Gagosian gets exposed while US presidents get hosed
Meanwhile, doctors form an art club and Mimran takes on Type A
Auschwitz survivor wants her art back from concentration camp
Roma portraits were made by Jewish prisoner on the orders of Dr Josef Mengele
MoMA acquires Luc Tuymans paintings
The works focus on American conservatism under the Bush administration
Amateur painter's Anti-Bush painting in cafeteria exhibition enrages Republicans
But California Attorney General defends freedom of speech
As conservatives switch their sights from art to social issues, are the culture wars over for artists?
The Bush administration and its supporters now have their guns trained on social policy
Congress approves $100,000 for pilot digital project
Digital Promise non-profit will develop electronic education programmes
Are the culture wars over? White House proposes $18m increase to federal arts funding
The boost, which will send "American masterpieces" across the US, comes more than a decade after Congress threatened to abolish the NEA for financing "objectionable" works
Maria Altmann's Holocaust restitution case against Austria will be heard by the US Supreme Court
An American citizen is claiming six Klimts from the Nationalgalerie in Vienna alleged to have been seized from her uncle by the Nazis and then unlawfully retained by Austria after the war
Artists lead anti-war protests as the US prepares to invade Iraq
Polls show the public could not care less what the art world thinks
American war in Iraq: What a tragic farce
Iraq war poses significant risk to cultural treasures in the region
Senator investigates MoMA
The Federal Finance Committee aims to stop financial abuses at US museums
Antiquities dealer Shelby White included in US Cultural Property Advisory Committee: A fox among doves?
Anger at appointment of collector who imports the very objects the committee tries to keep out
US court returns Steinhardt antiquity to Italy but fails to settle key restitution question
The penalty of lying to customs
Much piety and hot air at Washington Conference on Holocaust Era Assets
No binding agreements were reached and little effect on restitution is expected
The smoking dilemma: will Philip Morris's art support outlive its critics?
The tobacco giant remains one of the most important private funders of the arts in the US